Families often want to send a holiday card that captures the essence of where they’re from. Being from San Francisco, for example, we at Minted would love to send cards inspired by our beloved city. For this challenge, we’re asking designers to create a modern, sophisticated holiday card inspired by a specific geographic location of their choice. The photo card needs to allow a Minted customer to upload and incorporate a family photo into the design. For your submission, please use a photo of a real-life family that we’ve provided as inspiration for you (see below).
Prizes: This time, there will be 6 winners – the highest scoring design representing each of the North, South, East, West and Midwest regions of the United States, and the best International Holiday Card representing another country. Each of these winners will receive $500, and the next four highest-scoring designs across all regional categories will win $100. All 10 designs will be sold at Minted.com, with those designers receiving 5% of the net sales of the products sold. As usual, Minted will choose 2 designers who enter the challenge for a follow-on design commission.
Please choose one family per design submission - and submit as many as you'd like!
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Peyton and Catherine love the fact we celebrate the holidays twice. On Christmas Eve we celebrate with my parents as we honor the German tradition of exchanging presents in the evening. For the past 30 years we’ve enjoyed the evening by feasting on a mountain of smoked, self-caught King Salmon. The obligatory German ‘Stollen’ cake, while earning points for never missing the event, has always run a distant culinary second (or third) to the salmon. Some traditions, even the less tasty ones, never die :)
After a later than usual evening, we head home and the kids receive new matching holiday pajamas. Christmas Morning at home involves the entire extended family (eight adults and seven children) coming over at 11am for brunch and a present exchange. If the weather is clear, my parents cruise 10 minutes across the lake by boat, while the other family members make the short drive from around the neighborhood. To prevent excessive gift giving and to keep true to the holiday season, the adults are encouraged to purchase gifts for only two family members. The gift exchange designations are decided upon at Thanksgiving, using the tried and true pull names out of the hat technique.
We are a busy family with 2 working parents and 2 very energetic identical 4-year old twins. “The Boys”, as they are so often referred, are busy guys with lots of activities so during the holiday season, we try to slow down and spend a lot of quality time as a family. We celebrate Hanukkah and work hard to share our traditions and culture with our kids. We make it a point to stop whatever we’re doing every night of Hanukkah to light the candles and sing songs that we used to sing as kids. The boys also get one small present for each night of Hanukkah and spend each day curious and anxious about what they’ll be getting. Of course, we can’t forget the food -- there are always celebrations with our extended, close-knit families where we all get to indulge. Hanukkah and winter bring such yummy treats from potato latkes and chocolate coins to hot chocolate and sugar cookies.
We recently started a new tradition of a ‘Hanukkah Tree/Bush’ because Joey & Ryan really wanted to decorate a tree like so many of their friends. We make sure they appreciate their own culture, but don’t want them to miss out on the fun of Christmas either. We also want them to know that whichever holiday they celebrate, it’s their family and friends that truly make the holiday season special.
Dan and I love the holiday season, and it has become even more special since the birth of our beautiful daughter Emma a year and a half ago. Because our relatives live all over the US, we make an effort to get as many family members together as possible during the holidays. Our relatives love to share stories, laugh, eat, and of course dote on the children. These photos were taken during Emma’s first snow outing, and it took her a while to adjust as she tried to make sense of the cold, slushy ground beneath her. Eventually she was happily picking up handfuls of snow and throwing them at whoever was nearest. We look forward to creating many more holiday traditions together in the coming years, but they will always revolve around family and new adventures.
